Lorimer Fison
Lorimer Fison | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Born | 9 November 1832 Barningham, Suffolk, England |
| Died | 29 December 1907 (aged 75) Essendon, Melbourne, Australia |
| Occupation | Methodist minister |
| Academic background | |
| Education | Caius College University of Melbourne |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | anthropology |
Main interests | customs of Fijians and Indigenous Australians |
Lorimer Fison (9 November 1832 – 29 December 1907) was an Australian anthropologist, Methodist minister and journalist.
Early life
Fison was born at Barningham, Suffolk, England, the son of Thomas Fison, a prosperous landowner, and his wife Charlotte, a daughter of the Rev. John Reynolds, who was a translator of seventeenth-century religious writers. Fison was educated at a school at Sheffield, then at the University of Cambridge where he studied with a tutor before becoming a student of Caius College in June 1855. After a "boyish escapade" at college he left for Australia. His sister was Anna Fison, translator and educator.
Late life
Fison died on 29 December 1907 at Essendon, Melbourne.
Notes
- ↑ "Fison, Lorimer (FY855L)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
- ↑ Stanner, W. E. H. (1972). "Lorimer Fison". Australian Dictionary of Biography. National Centre of Biography, Australian National University. ISBN 978-0-522-84459-7. ISSN 1833-7538. OCLC 70677943. Retrieved 2 June 2012.
References
- Serle, Percival (1949). "Fison, Rev. Lorimer". Dictionary of Australian Biography. Sydney: Angus & Robertson. Retrieved 19 October 2008.
- W. E. H. Stanner, 'Fison, Lorimer (1832 - 1907)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 4, MUP, 1972, pp 175–176. Retrieved on 19 October 2008.
- Additional sources listed by the Australian Dictionary of Biography:
- C. Irving Benson (ed), A Century of Victorian Methodism (Melbourne, 1935); C. B. Fletcher, The Black Knight of the Pacific (Sydney, 1944); G. Brown, ‘Lorimer Fison’, Australasian Methodist Missionary Review, Feb 1908; J. G. Frazer, ‘Howitt and Fison’, Folk-Lore (London), 20 (1909); B. J. Stern (ed), ‘Selections from the letters of Lorimer Fison … to Lewis Henry Morgan’, American Anthropologist, 32 (1930); The Age (Melbourne), 31 December 1907
- Thurn, Everard im (1912). . In Lee, Sidney (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography (2nd supplement). London: Smith, Elder & Co.
External links
English Wikisource has original works by or about:
- Kamilaroi and Kurnai book details, ISBN 0 85575 222 X
| International | |
|---|---|
| National | |
| Academics | |
| People | |
| Other | |
